Bug: Owlbear cub

[almightyorange]

Anyone else experienced that since the recent patch, when fighting the owlbear, once it's just the cub left the fight just keeps going and doesn't end with the interaction we're used to? I'm doing honor mode so there were 2 owlbears to kill, did both of them and the 2 siblings of Edowin died in the fight as well. Now i'm just stuck in a fight with the cub only and i don't get why it won't end.

[Swift_Violet]

Don't even remind me of the Owlbear cub. I'm so sad I'm not getting him this playthrough either. I recently finished my honor mode run with no owlbear cub and no best friend for Scratch either. I never had any issue with getting the owlbear cub until honor mode and everything from the order of killing the owlbear consort first to fleeing combat to not long resting in the cave itself became additional factors as to whether or not I'd get him. I'm doing another honor mode playthrough just for fun and once again, no owlbear cub. This time, he's stuck in the cave perpetually eating his dead mother. No amount of long rests or empty goblin camp fix it so it is what it is.

All I can suggest is to flee combat once it's just the owlbear cub left. Do not attempt to knock him out or attack him in any way. Also make sure to kill the owlbear mate first then the mom. Never long rest in the cave just to be safe or dismiss companions while in the cave. Never poison the goblin camp until after you get the owlbear cub because if you happen to poison one of the goblins who are part of the chicken chase game, it can also cause bugs related to the owlbear cub not showing up at the goblin camp later on. I'm not 100% certain any of these things will or will not ruin your chances of recruiting the owlbear cub, but from everything I've looked up trying to find solutions to this, if you want to avoid potential bugs with getting the cub, you might have to play it extra safe.

If you really want the owlbear cub, I've heard of people using console commands to change flags to get him to show up in circumstances where he bugged out and didn't. Since I play on ps5 and steamdeck, don't have access to any of that but that might be an option for you.

[Katie XXII]

Publicado originalmente por almightyorange:

I did end up getting it to work and the cub showing up at the goblin camp. It doesn't seem 100% foolproof, but to anyone else trying a workaround try to kill everything in the cave except the cub, then flee and enter the cave once after fleeing (just to make sure it's there alone), then have a long rest sometime before you enter the goblin camp (for the first time) after this. I'm not sure all of these things are needed for the workaround, but this is what feels most reliable to me.

I tried this bu the cub just stays in the cave, and wont show up at goblin camp

[Mike Garrison]

I recently played through this and killed the mate first. Everything happened as normal (cub ate mother, and showed up at goblin camp). I suspect the key thing is to just make sure that the fight ends with the mother's death.

[CTHOMP]

I killed the 2 parents in honor mode then ran out of the cave.

Later saved the cub from the goblin camp and I assume it will be going to my camp at some point.

[Stats]

As of 2024.09.21, nothing was fixed. Everyone keeps saying "people have reported and Larian knows it, hope it get fixed in the next patch". LOL.

Based on my observations and searches there are several bugs related to the owlbear thing:
1. Entering the goblin camp and seeing the chicken in the first place may block the owlbear cub from going there afterwards. You can still get the cub, though.
2. There is something that I don't know blocking the immediate goblin killing event (which means it may still happen after 2+ long rests). I once slaughtered the entire blighted village before entering the cave and the owlbear mom refused to die during the 1st long rest.
3. On the first encounter, leaving the cave (including returning to camp) before interacting with owlbear mom will permanently block the goblins killing event. Even if you speak with the mom later and back down, they will still live on forever. This is the bug that most people encountered.
4. If you've made mistake no.3, you can still get the cub by killing its mother. However, in Honor Mode, you have to slay the owlbear mate before the owlbear mother. If you kill the mother first, the cutscene will not be triggered properly, and the cub stays hostile forever.

[A Horrible Goose]

Publicado originalmente por Stats:

4. If you've made mistake no.3, you can still get the cub by killing its mother. However, in Honor Mode, you have to slay the owlbear mate before the owlbear mother. If you kill the mother first, the cutscene will not be triggered properly, and the cub stays hostile forever.

In Honor Mode, there are methods to prevent the mother from summoning her mate, in which case just killing the mother triggers the cutscene as it's supposed to.

As I noted earlier, Command: Halt will stop the summoning for as long as it's in effect. So will knocking her prone. You've got to be careful with HOW you knock her prone, though. If she successfully saves against a trip attack, she'll summon as normal.

There might be other, possibly more dependable, methods to lock her down, but I'll let others do the legwork to test things out.

[CuteHamster]

Honor Mode, you have to slay the owlbear mate before the owlbear mother.

[dlaverdu]

Non lethal attacks and run out the cave entrance,owl bear shows up in a few days in the goblin camp.Also works if you aggro scratch.

[SkebbZ]

This happens more often if you have allies, pets or summons in the fight in my experience. Or if you use banish one someone.

[blankt]

not fighting owlbear at all works, the cub shows at goblin camp this way

[Mike Garrison]

Making sure to kill the mate first works.

[moysha]

I tried knocking the cub out, but he won't show up in the goblin camp

[Bruce]

This thread was quite old before the recent post and the issue was resolved in a patch, so we're locking it to prevent confusion.